Shall the Religious Inherit the Earth?:
The Demographic Contradictions of Liberal Capitalism

This project argues that the population of the developed world will become increasingly religious and conservative in the long-term, reversing decades – even centuries – of liberal secularisation. There will be no mass conversions or sudden shifts in the cultural mood. Instead, religiosity will spread largelythrough demographic advantage in a world where secular religions and sources of secular enchantment have exhausted themselves.

’17 Oct, 2009: “Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist”, Verso Book Launch Debate on Ernst Bloch’s Atheism in Christianity, Saturday 17th October 2009, 3pm – 5pm, Room B35, Birkbeck College London (podcasted event)

10-13 March 2010: ‘Sacralization by Stealth?: The Religious Consequences of Low Fertility in Europe’, for conference on “Causes, Consequences & Responses to Low Fertility,” hosted by the Social Trends Institute, Barcelona

17 October 2009: ‘Only an atheist can be a good Christian; only a Christian can be a good atheist’, Debate on Ernst Bloch’s Atheism in Christianity, Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, London (podcasted event)